The Scarlet Letter
Chapter Fourteen
Entry Nineteen
Hester Prynne visits Roger Chillingworth to tell him she is going to reveal Dimmesdale the truth about the doctor's identity.
But why is she doing that?! In my opinion it would have been wiser just to tell it to Arthur. Now that Chillingworth knows what is going to happen, he can make preparations.
Furthermore, I think he already knows that Hester and Dimmesdale are going to be together again.
Now that he already foresees that Hester, Arthur and Pearl are going to get over their misery, he feels that he has to kill one of them because he doesn't want them to be happy together.
If Hester hadn't told him, he might not have sensed this so early, and the family could have fled without being stopped.
Good - yes, perhaps he does foresee that they will be together. Perhaps this is why he has stuck around, to make sure that they are never together.
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